Mickey Mouse (the Steamboat Willie version) is now public domain on the east coast of the US.
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Mickey Mouse (the Steamboat Willie version) is now public domain on the east coast of the US. Okay folks: this morning we're launching something we think is pretty useful. Lots of people have strong opinions on how content moderation should work, but they've never done it. So we built a content moderation mobile game (browser-based): https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/ Details about it are here: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/11/moderator-mayhem-a-mobile-game-to-see-how-well-you-can-handle-content-moderation/ Btw, when you finish the game, it gives you social sharing info that you can copy and paste here. For example: I won #ModeratorMayhem on Round 8 Promoted to moderator manager! Safety: ⚖️ Achievements: 🥉3️⃣🤖⚽5️⃣🥈8️⃣🗓
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@mmasnick both my husband and I are huge Kevin Smith fans...we watch his movies, buy his books and we used to see him often when we lived in Vancouver, he was always receptive to waves and comments as we passed him by. He is a good guy. @mmasnick Kevin Smith is a … controversial figure in many ways, but personally, I think “kind” is an excellent descriptor Good to see NPR taking a stand here: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label
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@mmasnick first of many, I hope again, Twitter only succeeded because journalists paid attention to it and signal boosted everything off of it relentlessly on broadcast news. Without that signal boost, there is no spreading of Twitter. The user base is actually quite small. Good call, @NPR, I hope every decent news outlet in the world will follow this example.
I've boosted a few others pointing out this article, but I gotta say, I find it absolutely hilarious that Taibbi went from Musk bootlicker to effectively off the site and shadowbanned in 48 hours... especially since one of Taibbi's big (misleading and misunderstood) scoops was about Twitters visibility filtering... https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/
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Taibbi is learning the hard way that sometimes the enemy of your enemy turns out to be your enemy. "Wait! You're telling me that life has three dimensions? More??" I wrote about why Mehdi Hasan's takedown of Matt Taibbi actually destroys the entire foundation of the story Taibbi is trying to tell about the Twitter files. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/
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@mmasnick I mean I get that there's a pipeline between "lauded figure" -> "exposure as a sexual harasser/predator" -> "conservative for pay" but I don't get how he could be as incompetent and incapable in that interview, unless the books he wrote, had VERY VERY VERY good editors... It was a pleasure to watch. Actually when I think about #MSNBC on air talent, it's just so much better than any other "news" network. They are all there because of their brilliance and tenacity, instead of their looks or charisma. I start every day with #JoyReid highlights, #RachelMaddow if she was on, and #AriMelber and #ChrisHayes and #StephanieRuhle they're all amazing in their own ways... Oh, this seems pretty cool. Now that Elon has cracked down on the API and made tools like debirdify not work, @scafaria has created Whosum, a browser extension to help make your social graph more portable. It currently "records" your Twitter connections and then highlights those on Mastodon all in your browser (not on some server somewhere). https://whosum.com/
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Interesting timing of Twitter changing its logo to the Doge dog... just as Elon is trying to get out of a (stupid, likely to fail) lawsuit arguing that he pumped & dumped dogecoin. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/3/23668356/twitter-doge-bird-logo-retweet-labels-following-timeline https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-crypto-dogecoin-tesla-1850293273
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There was a time I thought Musk was going to try to convert Twitter to a blockchain. I always assumed he was dumb enough to think it could work. Related to that was a belief he would issue his own crypto token viaTwitter. So, uh, not pleased that Elon is now implying I might be a gullible sucker who would pay him his monthly "I'm a gullible sucker" fee. Dude should just take away our legacy blue checks like he promised. So, as @chancerydaily points out, legacy blue checks who don't want the blue checks are currently stuck with the blue checks and Musk is implying they may be paying. And the only way to hide the blue check is if you actually do pay, where you will soon get an option to hide the fact that you pay. This truly is the dumbest timeline. HAHAHAHAH. @caseynewton and @zoeschiffer got Elon's secret "twitter accounts to boost" list and it is so bizarre. Meanwhile, remember how Elon complained about the former folks doing this in secret? Apparently it's fine when he does it. https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting @caseynewton @zoeschiffer fwiw, it looks like the main criteria for many of these is basically "does Elon like interacting with them" @mmasnick will be satisfied when the value is negative and has liabilities that will reduce his net worth even further. @mmasnick yeah, this is hilarious. and he's still valuing it at 4x any comps, which is rich even in tech world @mmasnick random factoid: Erin Woo, who shares the byline, is a recent Stanford grad and former Editor-in-Chief at The Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/author/erin-woo/ It's happening... More followers here on Mastodon than on Twitter. And y'all are much nicer here too.
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I'm more proud of this headline than I should be... https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/13/its-one-api-michael-what-could-it-cost-42000-per-month/ Remember the concept of "management by walking around" that was all the rage back when I went to business school? Now we get "management by tweeting around."
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@mmasnick Short attention-span theatre totally tracks with his psychological profile. If you want to understand of the dark side of the #narcissist #psychology of #ElonMusk, I spent months studying him so you don't have to. https://samray.substack.com/p/the-grooming-of-elon-musk-a-psychological-cc8 I have lots of respect for the investigative journalism that @Julia has done for many many years. But her first opinion piece in the NY Times, about Section 230 gets a ton of basic facts wrong, misunderstands the law, and proposes an unworkable and dangerous "fix" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/23/your-simple-solution-to-section-230-is-bad-julia-angwin-edition/ Kinda curious what inspired LifeHacker to publish a "How to Become the Pope" article that includes many gems, but this one is especially great:
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Anyway, now that a ton of journalists are flocking back to Mastodon... you should read my article about how all your articles about Mastodon "slumping" were bullshit. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-fediverse-is-slumping-despite-massive-increase-in-usage/
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@mmasnick my observation is they come here to dump content then get upset when it gets no traction. They don’t follow anyone so they don’t see anything interesting. They don’t get the way this works. If they followed people they’d have higher engagement and more interesting content. On Twitter follow ratio mattered to the algorithm. Here it doesn’t. I wrote about how I cannot understand why anyone is interested in joining a new centralized social media platform when we now have a great opportunity to move to protocols instead of platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/
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@mmasnick At the end of the day, people just need something that works and can handle the traffic of a major social media platform. Ninety-nine percent don't care whether it is a centralized or open platform. @mmasnick I think it comes down to decentralized is just confusing. Mastodon has a huge learning curve where Twitter just made sense for a long time. 12
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Oh I can’t wait to see what I will do
@mmasnick Thanks for the warning!
@mmasnick Does copyright expiration really depend on local time? That sounds weird. But if not, when exactly did it expire?